Randy Slaugh

Randy Slaugh (born October 3, 1987) is an American music producer and composer based in Los Angeles, California.^[1] He has worked with artists such as Jelly Roll,^[2] Skillet,^[3] Sleeping With Sirens,^[4] Yelawolf, Architects,^[5][6] The Amity Affliction, Periphery,^[7][8][9] David Archuleta,^[10] TesseracT,^[11] Devin Townsend,^[12][13] and Four Year Strong,^[14][15] and is a member of Kscope's cross-continental music group White Moth Black Butterfly.^[16][17][18] In recent years, he has worked on music for television series on Netflix, CBS, NBC, ABC, Hulu, Discovery, ESPN, VH1, and MTV, for video games such as Free Fire, and for ad campaigns for Bombas, NBA, Levi's, and KMC Wheels.^[19] Slaugh is part of the Producers & Engineers Wing Committee for The Recording Academy,^[20] and a member of the Sundance Institute, Music Producers Guild, Society of Composers & Lyricists^[21] and the Heavy Music Awards.^[22][23]

Life and career

Early years

Randy Slaugh grew up in the suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania playing music in alternative rock and post-hardcore bands. He began teaching himself audio production and later went on to study communication and advertising in college. While at college, Slaugh connected with audio engineer Ken Dudley^[24] and started learning more professional levels of production.^[25][26]

2010–present

In 2010, Slaugh connected with the band Periphery at some of their early shows.^[27] After hearing a demo of their song "Have a Blast," he reached out to lead guitarist and producer Misha Mansoor, and offered to record real violin and cello to replace the midi strings in the demo.^[28][29] In 2013, Slaugh worked with Misery Signals, who were recording their album Absent Light in Idaho and were looking for more extensive string arrangements to feature on the album.^[30][31] Later that year, he went on to work with I Killed the Prom Queen,^[32] Devin Townsend,^[33] Architects,^[34] We Shot the Moon, and Intervals. In 2015, Slaugh joined progressive pop group White Moth Black Butterfly after working with Daniel Tompkins and Keshav Dhar on Skyharbor's Guiding Lights album the previous year.^[35][36] He co-wrote and co-produced the group's album Atone, as well as their Rising Sun (EP), which were released via Kscope.^[37]

Devin Townsend's Z², which Slaugh did orchestration and engineering on,^[38] won Metal/Hard Music Album of the Year^[39] at the 2015 Juno Awards.^[40][41] Skyharbor's Guiding Lights was named Best Album: Critic's Choice in Rolling Stone's 2015 Metal Awards,^[42] and Architects' Lost Forever // Lost Together won Best Album in the Relentless Kerrang Awards.^[43] The song "The Price is Wrong" from Periphery's Periphery III: Select Difficulty was nominated for Best Metal Performance^[44] at the 2017 Grammy Awards.^[45][46] and Periphery's 2019 release Periphery IV: Hail Stan charted #1 on Billboard's Independent Album, Current Rock Album and Current Hard Music Album charts.^[47]

In 2018, Slaugh broke into the TV and film world working on shows such as MTV's Catfish: The TV Show, VH1's Black Ink Crew, TLC's 90 Day Fiancé, Discovery's Diesel Brothers and A&E's Wahlburgers.^{[citation needed]} He has since composed music for television series across several networks, and for movies including Bollywood film The Body^[48][49] and independent crime thriller Locker 42.^[50]

Selected discography

Television

Film

Video games

References

1. ^ Multiple sources: *"Prog Metal Composer/Arranger Randy Slaugh & Drummer Mac Christensen Discuss WHITE MOTH BLACK BUTTERFLY and Working With PERIPHERY, DEVIN TOWNSEND, Etc.". Metal Injection. February 17, 2019. *IANS (October 12, 2016). "Parikrama bassist explores theme of violence with debut single". indianexpress.com. Indian Express. Archived October 1, 2018 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved October 1, 2018. *"Parikrama bassist explores theme of violence with debut single". dailypost.in. Daily Post. October 12, 2016. Archived June 24, 2017 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved October 1, 2018. *Nivedita Ganguly (October 27, 2017). "In the artiste's own space". thehindu.com. The Hindu. Archived October 27, 2017 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved October 1, 2018.
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8. ^ "Periphery: Hear Spencer Sotelo's Stunning Isolated Vocals for "It's Only Smiles"". Revolver. April 9, 2019.
9. ^ "Periphery – Hail Stan | Album Review". noizzeuk. Archived from the original on February 28, 2020. Retrieved February 28, 2020.
10. ^ ""Anymore" with @DavidArchie & @MadilynPaige_, Happy 1st Yr Leo EP!". August 25, 2018. Archived from the original on June 24, 2019. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
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55. ^ "Kendall Tucker Teams with Jelly Roll and State of Mine on New Track "Dragging Me Down": Watch the Music Video [PREMIERE]". August 24, 2023.
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66. ^ "'War of Being': How One Band is Using Gaming to Redefine How We Experience Music". August 18, 2023.

External links

• Randy Slaugh on AllMusic
• Randy Slaugh at IMDb